I m erin burnett. Outfront tonight, free. The cdc announces the biggest step towards normalcy that the united states has taken in more than a year. Today is a great day for america. Our long battle with the coronavirus. Just a few hours ago, the centers for disease control and prevention, the cdc, announced that they are no longer recommending thas come to be the meme s mask. We went out today, across the country. Here is what people told us as they first heard the news. I am so happy. I couldn t wait. More freedom. I m tired of ordering things on line and not going in stores. I think it s a step in the right direction. It s really exciting. It s exciting for our whole staff and for our whole group. The president wasting no time. First lady jill biden no mask as she was arrived in west virginia. She was asked what the guidelines mean. She just nice to know considering the masks have become a decisive thing. Senator joe manchin said, we freel free. Mitch mcconnell saying free at last. T
the new questions tonight about what happened and the threat is is not over. here are tonight s headlines. you can just see how much of the landscape has been charred. the town just totally wiped out. our visit to historic lahaina now in ruins. nothing but ashes. it s like an ashen moonscape, every single house. every single tree. and it goes on like this for a block after block after block. we speak with survivors as a community waits for news about their loved ones. i do expect the numbers to rise. heads up, the line is live on the ground right there. norah: tonight the new video about what may have caused the fire and the stories of desperation to get out alive. > the sirens did not go off and even fire hydrants did not have water. how did so much go so wrong? one of the island s most famous longtime residents oprah winfrey spent the last several days doing what she could to provide emotional comfort and physical aid to one of the hardest hit areas.
john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let s get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president s corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn t a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and understand whether there is any need for a criminal investigation. and in order to do that, you need to know where are all of the classified documents, how did they get there, and as we ve been reporting today, the fbi interviewed some of the biden aides involved in packing the boxes and moving the documents, so that u.s. attorney had been reporting to merrick garland. well then, all of a sudden, toda
i m rosemary church. just ahead, the ukrainian president zelensky travels to washington this week. we will look at the challenge he faces when it comes to getting more funding for the war with russia. former u.s. president donald trump reverses course when it comes to testifying in court later today. this, as he doubles down on startling comments about being a dictator if he gets in the white house for a second term. and homes turned to rubble and ash in gaza after an israeli air strike. what the u.s. has to say about civilian protection in the beleaguered enclave. thanks for joining us. we start with the ukrainian president making his third trip to washington since russia invaded his country nearly two years ago. a statement from president zelensky s office says he will meet with u.s. president biden about further defense cooperation. but right now, aid for ukraine is bogged down in congress amid a long-running domestic debate with some lawmakers saying, it comes down